Her house was raided the day the indictment was unsealed. More than likely all her bank accounts are frozen, she has no computers or cell phone, and now her YouTube channel is deleted, and The Blaze fired her yesterday.
Nominal right wing commentators are leaving her out to dry, and X is having a field day.
I am super pissed off about this. Everyone has forgotten how corrupt the DoJ is.
I am super black pilled over this. Our side will never be able to put up even moderate resistance to the approaching tyranny if they are so easily led around by the nose like this.
Yup. This is obviously an attack, on them, and not from Russia.
Probably picked her since she can’t afford to fight back. I’ve seen plenty of her videos and they’re pretty tame and not particularly objectionable. She doesn’t even have a very large following compared to many.
they picked on her because she's one of the few mainstream right wing commentators that spoke out against israel .
I pray she can still find another job.
Is there any reason why she can't just keep running her channel on Rumble? I think this is survivable as long as she comes out swinging, rhetorically speaking.
Right wingers are starving for strong leaders and speakers. We've repeatedly seen that if Sauron's eye targets one of us, but they don't yield, and stand firm, they gain a lot of support. She could theoretically come out of this in a stronger position. However, she is a woman, which makes her less likely to stand firm. And, it looks like the entire weight of globohomo is being levied against her, which is more difficult to stand against on one's own.
This type of treatment is going to increasingly happen, and the treatment will get perpetually worse, until we make them stop.
Her husband needs to back her up behind the scenes. Hopefully he's not too deep in the whole millennial thing
The part that's a tell is people who are trying to throw Lauren under the bus are collaborating with the Feds/DoJ.
I suspect that they picked her so they could use a FISA warrant and surveil everyone within one hop of her. Remember, this investigation has been underway for almost a year, pretty much from the moment Tennent media was formed.
Why do you think they chose her in this manner? If she wasn't tame and was saying spicier things, she'd simply be labelled as a crazy to be ignored. But a somewhat moderate? That's a threat. That's risky to swing-voters.
Remember, the biggest threat for leftists are those that might sway other leftists away from leftism. That's why commies hate fascism. That's why liberals hate populism. They're threatened by the ideologies that ultimately appeal to leftists in some way or another.
Attractive woman + Reasonable non-hyperbolic opinions = Dangerous
I don't think she was the prime target. She was probably used because she runs in the same circles, and is on friendly terms with, a lot of the bigger people, since she goes way back. She's OG, but not massive; she's the perfect target.
Nah, she might actually be a chinese plant.
You've posted here nine times in your account's one year lifespan...while trying to take over this sub in /Meta multiple times, and otherwise stir up shit.
Now you're here to say Lauren Chen is a spy?
If anything, that just makes me suspect you're an (inept) fed or something.
What a rebuttal. Why are you even wasting your time answering me?
I never tried to "take over the sub", that's a lie you just fabricated.
I merely complained about how the sole moderator can't properly moderate his own shit.
Faggot.
Tranny
You wear your agenda on your sleeve, don't shy away from it now because it's being explicitly stated by someone else.
My agenda is for DOM to do the minimum, which he doesn't, set up filters so that the resident pedos here stop spamming shit about dead women and child brides on c_kia. I know right, what a terrible agenda...
Funny how that shares a lot in common with D&C tactics.....
Dude, I spent my time reporting that heinous shit posted here, yet I have other things to do, Do you? I bet you don't.
I'm too busy to care about your conspiracy theories...
To point out you're sketchy as fuck, and don't seem to even be 'one of us.' You're not being honest.
To the admins. Demanding new mods.
Tomato, tomato, basically. You want to drastically change this sub...while not actually engaging here. That's really suspicious behavior. Not sure what your deal is, but you're either absolutely retarded, or not operating in good faith.
If she was a chinese plant Garland wouldn't have indicted her...
Lauren Chen was one of the few mainstream conservative influencers who spoke against israel. So there's that
Yup, she's also been talking about repealing the 19th Amendment.
she's pushing far right ideas while looking like a reasonable moderate that people can relate to, that's what scares the powers to be.
. And they are also having difficulty calling her "White supremacist" or "sexist" because she's a half Asian woman. So now they are trying to destroy her
Huh. It's always weird(but interesting) to see women who realize that women shouldn't be involved in politics.
Before feminism was artificially pushed in the West, almost all women opposed it. After the people that pushed it gained control of education, they brainwashed women into accepting it.
Nobody hates women more than women
That's just called a normal woman. Normal women and normal men can recognize the things they're not suited for and can say it out loud.
It's a co ordinated attack, there's bots flooding political commentator channels accusing them of being traitors and Russian agents in their comments and they only acted THIS close to the election.
It's desperate last gasp tactics using EVERY bit of lawfare left against all political targets. I'm not blackpilled as their content is still available on Rumble and we could all see how the Blaze was getting just as cucked as Fox hell even Crowder left because of that but this is cornered animal time as this is telling me the election isn't as fortified as the machine would like.
Robert Barnes discussed this tonight on Locals, and he brought up some interesting points:
The two RT people under indictment are no longer in the country, and are not in custody. What does this mean? The government will not face a defense against these charges, and no one will demand discovery for the evidence. The government will not have to prove where the money came from, nor offer any other proof to justify these charges.
Neither Lauren or her husband will be able to have their day in court, and will have their reputations permanently trashed through government sponsored innuendo.
Robert also insinuated that it isn't RT behind this, but more likely it is someone closer to Langley, Virginia.
Even though pedophilia is quite rampant in Western society, 3 letter agencies and our governments probably also deperson people by "finding" child porn on their computers, which somehow always amounts to terabytes of it. It's the LEO equivalent of "sprinkling some crack" on the suspect. No one used to question what the government did to such people, because even the accusation of having child porn would get someone excommunicated from society, even their own families wouldn't publically stand up for them. Now, with how blatantly corrupt governments have become, people have started to question it. And, Russia is the new accepted boogeyman. Anyone who buys this at face value is a moron, and every single right wing media personality that does so reveals themselves to be weak, stupid, and/or corrupt, and should never be listened to again. It's just more evidence piled on top of the mountain for all of mainstream politics being controlled opposition, a false choice dichotomy.
Just a reminder, Robert Barnes is full blown running interference for Nick Rekieta after he was arrested for cocaine possession while neglecting his five children and living in a polycule while another man fucked his wife in the same bed he was sleeping in.
Hey Rekieta! Stop stealing my moves!
What a life
Oh noes. Robert Barnes believes in civil rights even for people who do sketchy shit. What a terrible dude.
It's way beyond that.
He keeps parroting that the search warrant of Nick's house was invalid and politically motivated when the police and CPS had multiple people come forward re: his drug use, his strange behavior and the welfare of his children including his pastor, his wife's sister and the man cucking him.
He also argues in bad faith to anyone pointing out holes in his wild theories finding fault in anyone but his cokehead deadbeat dad Internet friend, calling Josh Moon and fellow Lawtube lawyers pedos simply because they filed legal requests to have the bodycam of Rekieta's arrest released publicly.
Which Nick has made every legal effort possible to keep sealed.
Just a reminder, you're a faggot
RT?
Russia Today
Russia Today, a state owned media company.
Ah, the Russian NPR.
I saw that. This sucks. Her YouTube channel and podcast is gone. Haven’t checked Rumble yet. All this is insane
Her channel is still up on Rumble, I follow her there. 125k subscribers:
https://rumble.com/c/LaurenChen
She's on Odyssey as well
https://odysee.com/@laurenchen:0?r=HCprkeBCTvYDXpg1EPeuNAeYYAexvPkL
Thanks. I got rumble mainly for Alex Jones and Nerdrotic’s stuff but need to use it more
I dont watch political videos on YT anymore. I unsubscribed from all the channels I subscribed to there that dealt with political subjects, and went and found their Rumble channels, and only watch them there.
Not bad idea
It's good to take away views from youtube but it's worth pointing out most of these arseholes use Rumble and Odysee purely as a backup channel which they mirror to. Lotus Eaters and TheQuartering sort of do it to their credit and mainly focus on Rumble, but other than that most of them ignore the alternatives because the bulk of their audience is on youtube. Or they stick with youtube because they want to get that fat ad money, then proceed to constantly whine and do their victim larp when youtube inevitably clamps down on them as if it isn't a corporation filled with people that hate them.
It's something I've been finding pretty pathetic about the youtube commentator crowd these days especially when it come to the political side of things, I don't watch a lot of their content anymore and I've grown to really dislike the ones who larp as edgy freedom fighters while farming youtube for money.
This seems like a smear campaign. No one at Tenet was indicted. If she is small potatoes why go after her? Is this a test run kinda deal? Are the feds working on ways to silence bigger folks down the line?
And why is Conservative Inc. so quick to buy into this burial?
They understand that standing by Lauren costs them money, which is ultimately why most of them are in political commentary in the first place.
Sundance over at CTH said it this way: Republicans use power to get money, Democrats use money to get power.
I gotta disagree with you, for the most part. While greed definitely plays a role in the useful idiots who willingly go along with the game, malice is the most likely motive behind all of this, since the mainstream right is offered up as a false choice political dichotomy to the openly globalist left, where both sides are controlled by the people in power. This goes beyond politics, and into the media as well. I'd venture a sage guess that most mainstream right wing media personalities are willing mouthpieces of that game.
I'm kinda stupid, so please elaborate how defending her would cost them money? Would they lose sponsers, monetization, audience donations?
Sponsors, monetization almost certainly. Probably some audience contributions, too, if the fallout over this is anything to guide me.
They would also run the risk of the DoJ roping them into the investigation.
Because ConInc is mostly controlled opposition and she dared to criticize Israel, the favorite sacred cow of every conservacuck.
The left will use this to continue its "muh Russia" bullshit, but I think this propaganda push on the right is an effort to get the right more anti-Russian. Trump was actually very hostile to Russia in his first term, despite social media rhetoric among both the left and right suggesting otherwise. I think they are trying to get Trump's voter base more anti-Russian and by extension, more supportive of Ukraine.
Just goes to show who really was part of this msm (mainstream alternative media). Not surprised it was fake and controlled
I have barely any idea who Lauren is and that crowd. But clearly she's outlived her usefulness on YouTube
Hopefully she had her assets in something other than just bank accounts and YouTube money
I don’t think there’s anything you can have your assets in that the feds cannot take. If you’re alluding to bitcoin, I hate to tell you, but that’s not safe either. As soon as you try to convert it into cash so that you can buy groceries for your family or make your rent payment, the feds will be on you. They know all your wallets, and all the exchanges cooperate with them.
The courts managed to freeze the Canadian truckers' bitcoin assets at the same time as Trudeau froze bank accounts.
AFAIK, they are still frozen under court order all this time later.
Yep. If you think you have bitcoin because you have a coinbase account, you’re in for a real shock. They will lock you out in a heartbeat.
If you have your own wallet and the feds know about it, they will blacklist it on every exchange preventing you from turning it into cash - that is functionally equivalent to seizing it.
maybe not bitcoin, but something like monero might've been better.
and outside of banked assets, she could've had foreign assets, foreign property... or divided her wealth among trusted parties in and out of the country (though this probably is a no, given how almost everyone has snubbed her - unless there are private individuals we don't know about)
or even some non-usual ways to fund her herself
max igan was cut-off and he managed to get by via Wise donations and privacy crypto, plus establish himself somewhat in mexico. wouldn't be able to if he stayed in australia. i'm sure lauren can land on her feet too, especially not solo with a husband
Nose you say …
Sooooooooo... the mainstream media says these affiliate guys (like Tim, Dave or Matt) were paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a month or 100k per video? I don't know what the current rates are for ad revenue on YouTube or Rumble, but this kinda seems excessive. I recently uploaded some pics to imgur and, like a true masochist, started to scroll down their suggested posts section and this one caught my eye. Context plz?
NPC Lies.
I watched many of these people's content before Tennant was a thing, and what they posted before and after did not change.
We know the DoJ has lied over and over again, and invented radical legal theories to charge people with crimes (Jan 6 "interfering with an official proceeding" charges, anyone?) , so until the government can offer some real proof in court, I don't believe a fucking word they say.
Yes the DOJ is corrupt and they are always lying pieces of shit, but youtubers have also shown they're greedy fucks who will chase multiple pay checks even if it means doing a complete larp for their audience. As far as I'm concerned, if you're a youtuber that turns out to be a glowie or a glowie asset and you get caught out lying to your audience I to cover up the fact that you're with glowies I don't want to know you.
Even if the DOJ can't hit them with anything, I suspect nobody is going to come out looking good from this and that's probably exactly what was intended.
Potentially Criminal (Sean Martin), Cleveland criminal defense lawyer, reviewed the indictment docs tonight on stream.
The indictment alleges that there was no economic case to pay Pool & Rubin what their initial demands were. But that was the whole point, as the Russian glowies didn't care about getting a return on their investment.
In the documents, Chen and her husband returned to their Russian handlers (who were posing as a fake French oligarch at the time) after having approached Rubin and Pool and collecting their initial demands. Rubin initially wanted 2 million/yr and Pool wanted 100k/week or episode.
Chen and her husband returned to their Russian contact after initial outreach, stating it would be impossible to recoup the investment via YT revenue and sponsors and that they should move on to other creators.
The Russians said "No, no. We want Rubin and Pool badly. We'll pay whatever".
Pool ended up getting close to what he demanded. They actually gave Rubin over double his OG demand, as he actually ended up making 400k/month plus a 100k signing bonus.
Ben Shapiro did a show smearing her and Tim Pool as russian assets and did an ad read for some Israeli company right in the middle of it. Brazen.
Who is Shapiro’s audience at this point?
Of course he did, he's a Jew. He's got a hatred for Russia that is bone deep, they pogrammed Jews in the lat 1800s.
It is definitely a shame, I've been a very casual fan since she was Roaming Millennial before culture war stuff had quite as big of a hold on the world as it does now.
She was just a reasonable intelligent person covering sometimes interesting topics at the time at least.
Conservatives are born bootlickers. They're never going to do anything but lay down and die. It's in the nature.
The indictment, fwiw, really implicates Chen rather than her husband.
The sections I've seen reviewed online have her as the main contact with the Russian assets and her husband barely mentioned whatsoever.
Is her husband a feather Indian?
Not sure.
Her husband is Liam Donovan IIRC.
The indictment listed them both as foreign nationals/non-US citizens.
I'd always thought that Chen herself had citizenship and that her husband was American, which was what made their fleeing from Canada in 2022 so expedient.
So they’re both Canadian then? My (admittedly ignorant) impression is that it is fairly easy for Canadians to move to the US, fairly indefinitely, provided they have no criminal record, etc..?
Somewhat like how it is for Australia and New Zealand.
At least, that seems to have been the case for (at least most of) the many Canuck celebs I know of…
I really know nothing about her husband Liam Donovan.
All I know is that they were living in either Cornwall, Ontario or Hudson, Quebec during the start of the pandemic. She was still in Canada when Trudeau won his last election in Sept 2021.
She then moved to Nashville afterwards claiming COVID restrictions as the reason.
This indicates that she and her husband are both jabbed because it's a requirement for obtaining a visa.
Immigration from Canada to the US is still visa based. You generally need a spouse or an employer to sponsor you.
It seems though that YTubers have it easier to get approved. Viva Frei got a three year visa to be a self-employed streamer moving from Quebec to Florida in 2022. He too was jabbed.
IIRC, Chen talked about her own move to Nashville in 2022 in permanent terms.
I literally have no idea who this is.
A true conservative commentator who runs a network that includes Tim Pool and that faggot Dave Rubin.
Her company Tenet just got raided for allegedly being Russian propaganda.